Re: Which pkgsrc for NetBSD-3.1
John Murphy <[email protected]>
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"James K. Lowden" <[email protected]> wrote: >If I may be allowed to pontificate.... You may indeed. You are the Pontiff and I claim my £5. >pkgsrc is so-called for a reason: the folks who work on the project are >much more devoted to building from source than to binary packages. Binary >packages aren't the objective, as they are for example with Debian. >They're just a natural artifact of the work of working on build >infrastructure and dependencies. Understood, thanks. >In my experience, I've found pkgsrc works pretty well, especially if you >stay on the well trodden path. KDE may take overnight to build, but >likely as not in the morning it will be installed. I look forward to trying it, maybe quite soon if I can't get the bunnies to work. pkg_add should just work as well though... >Just one fan's opinion, of course. I'm definitely becoming a fan too. Net works just fine on some old hardware on which Free failed to install and it has drivers for my laptop's soundcard, which I've never seen on *bsd before. I wouldn't be surprised if it works on the Yamaha SW1000XG in my desktop PC ;) -- John.